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Mother's Day Quotes

Most of what you will see here is about love in general, because the Mother page itself is short. The page is assembled from the pages on mothers, love and gratitude.

If you want quotes that are actually about mothers, the Mother page has fewer but more precise ones. For anything you plan to print or say out loud, check the source line and the label next to it.

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Most quoted on mother's day:

Love — this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.

Ruslana Korshunova

There is not one judgment day, surely, but a thousand! Every time we confront beauty, truth, goodness or love, our response to them judges us.

Leslie Weatherhead The Christian Agnostic (1965)

I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.

Justin Bieber

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap and then you grow wings.

William Sloane Coffin Credo (2004)

“Well, isn’t that what fathers do?” He had no idea what fathers did. “Love you, even if you don’t love them? Miss you when you go away?”

N. K. Jemisin The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous.

Helmut Newton Photo (2005)

You simply can’t throw strangers together at random and expect the fiery, quick romance to turn into love. Love has its own rules and enforces them rigidly.

Robert Sheckley Notions: Unlimited (1960)

All of my love letters are nothing more than the realization of my need to make phrases.

Florbela Espanca

God is the only lover and He loves in different forms - parents, husband, wife, friend, children, animals. All are His forms and He, Himself, has no form.

Baba Hari Dass Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977)

Yet will the loved one’s gentle smile suffice
To ope the door of Paradise,
And turn to joy our dark and cruel lot.

Francesco Maria Molza

He couldn’t handle what it meant to have somebody in love with you. Running away was the only thing he knew how to do.

Glen Cook The Silver Spike (1989)

And I love what money does to you humans. It’s the only thing that saves you from being totally tedious.

Glen Cook Sweet Silver Blues (1987)

All women love the man who appeals to their maternity. Rudy does that instinctively and it is devastating in its effects on feminine resistance.

Natacha Rambova Photoplay: "Wedded and Parted (1922)

I shall always love the Mexican people for what the happiness they gave us that day. There was nothing that was too much for them to do.

Natacha Rambova Rudolph Valentino: A Wife's Memories of an Icon (2009)

I just always loved Yeats, him as a human. He was so passionate and just wrote what he felt.

Dolores O'Riordan

What matters is not what you paint but what your hand dances. The painting is only a notation of the dance of the hand, of the gesture of love.

John Diamond Stillpoints: An Introductory Guide to Haiku Painting (2008)

Being able to love others is a form of blessing. Being able to understand others is a form of wisdom.

Jun Hong Lu

The heirs, naturally, wanted everything to be theirs as soon as possible. No one is more rapacious, ruthless, and impatient than a loving family member.

Charles Sheffield Aftermath (1998)

Got to love computers. They do all the thinking for you so you don’t have to.

Andy Weir Project Hail Mary (2021)

Only those who recognize the central role of conscience can build a civilization of peace and love.

Massimo Introvigne

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